Advisory disabled carriageway markings
In order to help residents who have serious health problems affecting their mobility we endeavour to mark the highway in the form of an advisory disabled parking bay, to enable them to park their vehicle as close to their property as possible. There is however strict criteria to be met before this facility can be considered.
- There must be no existing off street parking facilities at the property or the potential to create such facilities.
- There must be a vehicle in ownership at the property. In most cases it will be the applicant who owns and drives a vehicle but if a carer (proof of this will be required) transports the applicant about then this may meet the requirements.
- Applicants must be in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (the higher rate of mobility and the middle rate of care) or the higher rate of Attendance Allowance. Documentary proof of this will be required.
- Most disabled bays are located directly fronting the applicant’s property to indicate which resident the bay is intended for and for this reason they are rarely positioned outside flats. Only in exceptional cases would a disabled bay be placed on the highway away from the applicant’s property.
- Not all roads are suitable for disabled bays to be installed, the road must be wide enough to accommodate the bay and the proposed location must not add to or create any road safety problems. They are not installed where an existing waiting restriction is in force.
Contact us
Engineering and Transportation Services
2nd floor, Civic Centre
Darwall Street
Walsall
WS1 1DG
Telephone 01922 653635
Email transportationservices@walsall.gov.uk
This page was last updated on 26 June 2009